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Introduction
The UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document is designed to supplement and provide
extended reference to the UNT Libraries' TRAC Audit Checklist (Appendix A), which outlines the
requirements of a Trusted Digital Repository. The self-assessment of the UNT Libraries and its
Digital Collections encompasses an evaluation of its associated policies, procedures, workflows,
modelling, and technical infrastructure in the TRAC audit process.
Background
Activities related to Web archiving, digitization, and digital object management started at the
University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in the early 2000s. Those initiatives have grown over
time, resulting in a large online collection and a number of departments largely or solely
responsible for activities to support the Digital Collections.
The Digital Collections
The UNT Libraries host and actively facilitate collection of digital materials for the Digital
Collections, which comprise three public-facing interfaces: the UNT Digital Library, The Portal to
Texas History, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The Digital Library
(http://digital.library.unt.edu) contains materials owned or licensed by the Libraries or university
entities, and items created by the UNT Extended Community (faculty, staff, students, and
administrators) including scholarly materials. The Portal (http://texashistory.unt.edu) is
collaborative and contains materials from collections owned by more than 300 partner
institutions across the state of Texas. The Gateway (http://gateway.okhistory.org) contains
materials owned by the Oklahoma Historical Society, primarily newspapers and photographs.
Administratively, as many of the processes as possible are uniform across collections and
material types. All items in the Digital Collections reside in a single infrastructure, built in-house
from open source components. Archival files and technical/administrative metadata are stored
in the Coda repository; Web derivatives and descriptive metadata are put in the Aubrey access
system. Automated processes package, verify, and deposit all digital files for these systems.
Descriptive metadata is also standardized for the Digital Collections. All items are described
using the same twenty-one locally-modified Dublin Core metadata fields. This metadata is
stored in a local (UNTL) format, but is also available as normalized Dublin Core.
The UNT Libraries supports the Digital Collections to uphold a commitment to their various
designated communities. As a program within UNT, the materials support research and
scholarship for persons directly associated with the university, but also make the scholarship of
UNT available to the wider public. Additionally, materials support the services offered by
partner institutions and provide worldwide access to their submitted content.1
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Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Krahmer, Ana; Tarver, Hannah & Waugh, Laura. UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document, report, October 2015; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1132746/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .